Model Forum / General / Railroads / December 2005

I have just returned from a few days away where I have had time to study
Iain Rice's book on finescale track construction in some detail
I have a couple of projects on the boil at the club and I am seriously
considering doing one of them in OO finescale but for reasons too difficult

I was looking through my old model railroad items and found a kit by the
name of Bret's Brewery. The kit looks like it would not be for a novice
(like me). anyone out there ever assembled this kit?

Just got mine set up and it appears to be going pretty slow.  No faster
then any other trains I have seen on the spectrum transformer I need to
put it up to 50% power to even get it to move?  Is this normal?  I know
people said if you use a different transformer it can make it go

I just bought some NCE Switch-Its to start automating my Tortoises. I
noticed that the factory default is CV548 and CV549 are set to 0 which
causes push buttons 1 and 4 toggle outputs A and B, buttons 2 and 3 are
ignored.

Is it Happy or Merry Christmas. I've not had a xmas in England for 19 years
(more the shame) and don't remember.
Over here in the US its merry Christmas if your politically incorrect,
usually Happy Holidays.... (Wa&^ers)

Can anyone help, I'm trying to decide which (Southern) EMU kit I am going to
buy from DC Kits, but I am confused as to which would be right.
I am modeling diesel/steam transition in the southern counties.
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I am trying to sort out illustrations for the 'know your enemy chart'
in Appendix Four of the on the Goods and Not So Goods website.
I have done all the diesels and electrics and am currently on multiple
units. I am having difficulty finding livery info on the early

Photos of the limted edition 171 are on the WFRM website.
http://www.wirralfinescale.com/
Enjoy ...

Hi, I am looking for a copy of a points controller circuit diagram. I have used the
controller in my layout with great success, but I want to avoid ripping the layout apart
to re draw the circuit. The diagram was published in the Silicon Chip publication for
Model Trains. Some ...

The following is reproduced from the DEMU forum - I make no claims for its
authenticity, but it is being claimed that it consitutes some of Hornby's
plans for 2006:-
John.

Anyone have any news on the above item or the Hornby "Seacow" in "Dutch"
livery?
TIA,
db.

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Merry Christmas to everyone on uk.railway and uk.rec.models.rail :)
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2-Rail or 3-Rail

Given that we may not see Southern EMU's from Hornby now, can someone
recommend the best kit to get for someone (me) who has never built a kit
before,
Merry xmas